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I have just bought a villa in Alagadi on the basis that the Power Station in Alagadi was to be removed from the area and placed elsewhere due to the building of the 'new' hotel. I have now been told that the Power Station is to stay as there is no where else to put it? Does anyone have any news regarding the situation

We heard this rumour of the power station's future some time ago...

I always thought the suggestion that the power station was to move to be a fantasy - they've been upgrading it and installing new generators steadily over the past 10 years - why would they if they planned to move it... of course those little monkeys called Estate Agents will tell all sorts of porky pies to sell properties... The idea that a facility that will need a massive power supply would cause the supplier to move seems at odds with the reality that is Cyprus.

There is talk of power lines to bring electricity from Turkey but that is possibly a pipe-dream too.... I must say running electricity under the sea seems somewhat fraught with dangers.

Sorry if this is not what you wanted to hear...

If someone knows differently (other than the rumours that abound here) I'd be interested in the logic that dictates the closing of the power station...

Spot on Groucho,

Can't think for the love of me anyone would want to stay in a 5 star hotel next to a power station.?

Feel really sorry for anyone living in the vicinity of this awful monstrosity which I'm sure must have some detrimental effect on people's health.

But this is Cyprus!

I think the electricity from Turkey will become a reality quite quickly once the water project has finished. There is no problem with cable undersea in the same way as there is no problem with the UK selling its electric to France - it can't get there by air and it was being sold long before the channel tunnel was opened.

Thank you Waddo for the encouraging news. I hope this happens

According to the newspapers turkey will supply SOME electricity but the rest will come from the power stations.

Ever since they started building the hotel at Lara Beach. rumours have surfaced that once it is finished the power station will be closed down. If this is going to happen, why have they spent all the money on the new generators? Rumours also say that Erdogans daughter
owns this hotel, if this is true and she wants the power station closed, then it will be closed I would think. I hope these rumours are true because kibtek have resisted putting filters on the chimney for years and one can see the polution in Esentepe.


The butlers wife

What I cannot understand is if the Power Station was to stay why build such an expensive 5 star hotel? For this reason I believed that the Power Station was to close and hence I went ahead purchasing the villa

Poster 1. What has the vendor to say now? I truly hope you've a contract, enforceable in law here in the TRNC, which will actually pay you if you win a case for breach of contract - very few plaintiffs have.
Poster 7. The pollution blighting the Esentepe environs involves far more than fumes from the power station, albeit I accept this is the most serious and obvious. That said, the new mayor is trying to sort the problems out but much more effort is required to protect the environment from random littering, wrecked vehicles stored on open land next to the Bahceli crossroads and fly tipping etc, etc.

I have heard from a very unreliable source that the power station will close down one day after the Cyprus problem has been resolved.
Michael

A snippet about the Serhartkoy pv power site reads:
The plant is connected since May 2011 to the grid of Kib-Tek and produces 2 GWh of electricity annually. In addition [ ] a programme of new solar and wind power plants for an estimate annual production of 210 GWh to be implemented by 2020. This is presently under negotiation with the TRNC Government. (I think the reference to Gwh is an error and should be Mwh.)
Will dozens of wind turbines be better to preserve the beauty of NC than one horribly polluting Teknecik?
A powerline from Turkey to Teknecik, to join the distribution network has been bruited. Maybe that idea got sunk.

£eagle wrote:A snippet about the Serhartkoy pv power site reads:
The plant is connected since May 2011 to the grid of Kib-Tek and produces 2 GWh of electricity annually. In addition [ ] a programme of new solar and wind power plants for an estimate annual production of 210 GWh to be implemented by 2020. This is presently under negotiation with the TRNC Government. (I think the reference to Gwh is an error and should be Mwh.)
Will dozens of wind turbines be better to preserve the beauty of NC than one horribly polluting Teknecik?
A powerline from Turkey to Teknecik, to join the distribution network has been bruited. Maybe that idea got sunk.

Solar power on the Mesaoria plain would be an ideal solution. Large parts of the Mesaoria are marshland and unsuitable for agriculture or livestock. A solar farm + 330 days of sunshine, no moving parts or noise or pollution.... This needs someone with a vision to put it into practice of course.....

Drove past the newly built hotel yesterday what a size it is link anyone ie name rooms etc

1. Its Elexus Hotel: http://www.elexushotel.com/
2. Power station will not close within the next 10 years, even if we have power from Turkey or Cyprus Problem resovled.

kbasat wrote:1. Its Elexus Hotel: http://www.elexushotel.com/
2. Power station will not close within the next 10 years, even if we have power from Turkey or Cyprus Problem resovled.

Have they changed the name from Lara Park.

If the advert site is to be believed the idea of a dry (no-alcohol) hotel is a thing of the past - if it ever was!

I have heard that this hotel is for strict muslims, where women and men are segregated and strictly no alcohol.

Visitors will be from the stricter countries in the middle east, Saudi Arabia, Quatar etc.



The butlers wife

the butlers wife wrote:I have heard that this hotel is for strict muslims, where women and men are segregated and strictly no alcohol.

Visitors will be from the stricter countries in the middle east, Saudi Arabia, Quatar etc.



The butlers wife

We heard this rumour too but a casino and restaurants with very well stocked bars don't seem to confirm the rumour...

There was a year or so back a large article with pics in C2D of a strictly Muslim hotel to be built somewhere on the coast up that way. They described how women would be able to swim in their appropriate garb etc., Maybe they meant there would be a completely segregate area for women? Whether the hotel they were referring to has become the Elexus I don't know.

sophie wrote:There was a year or so back a large article with pics in C2D of a strictly Muslim hotel to be built somewhere on the coast up that way. They described how women would be able to swim in their appropriate garb etc., Maybe they meant there would be a completely segregate area for women? Whether the hotel they were referring to has become the Elexus I don't know.

Could that have been a ploy to get around the planning regulations?

You can't build another hotel - we already have over-capacity
Ah - but this will be a strictly Muslim hotel and there aren't any of those
OK then.....

Then once underway - shaboom - another 5 star mega hotel in the usual mould with all the casinos, restaurants with booze and double rooms you can shake a stick at! The website shows no single rooms... So I ask - is it really a massive Moslem hotel with all the restrictions alluded to? - And if so, who would bother to come here in droves from countries already full of such places without a stunning view of a power station churning out fumes and with those restrictions which have been touted as a draw for custom? Or would they come here to avoid those restrictions in their home countries?

I wonder....

Apparently, the new hotel complex includes outdoor soccer training facilities. Hardly suitable for female Muslims?

tomsteel wrote:Apparently, the new hotel complex includes outdoor soccer training facilities. Hardly suitable for female Muslims?

Perhaps they've been watching Bend it like Beckham

If my reading of the translation was correct, maybe others can say:
There was something this week on the Catalkoy beli facebook page about three hotels and leisure facilities to be built on the land, now fenced off, west of the Hz Omer mosque. Do we need even more hotels?

Panchocat wrote:If my reading of the translation was correct, maybe others can say:
There was something this week on the Catalkoy beli facebook page about three hotels and leisure facilities to be built on the land, now fenced off, west of the Hz Omer mosque. Do we need even more hotels?

Do you really have to ask?

Business cases must show we need......
More DIY/yapı markets
More pizza parlours
More furniture outlets
More hotels
More restaurants
More empty shop front properties
More blah blah blah.....

Add your own to the endless list of ridiculous building projects currently under way or being mooted and wonder how anyone lending money to fulfil these pipe dreams thinks they will get their money back...

Local banks need to watch who they lend to....

If it's true that the power station will not close in the next ten years, then the only hope is that the hotel, once opened, will put pressure on Kibtek to fit the filters they were supposed to and to start burning cleaner fuel (less than 1% sulphur) that they were supposed to. Interestingly, these measures were put back another 6 months by the new Governent -the Government which came to power professing they would improve the environment!
I heard that this hotel was hoping to open in December, and coincidentally the 6 month delay to burn cleaner fuel is supposed to start in January. Will be interesting to see what happens then.
All I know is we live in Esentepe and have to wash black soot off our garden furniture and terraces on a daily basis. This new hotel, being next door to the power station will suffer even more. That's when, maybe, Kibtek may be forced to finally clean up their act.

Groucho wrote:

Panchocat wrote:If my reading of the translation was correct, maybe others can say:
There was something this week on the Catalkoy beli facebook page about three hotels and leisure facilities to be built on the land, now fenced off, west of the Hz Omer mosque. Do we need even more hotels?

Do you really have to ask?

Business cases must show we need......
More DIY/yapı markets
More pizza parlours
More furniture outlets
More hotels
More restaurants
More empty shop front properties
More blah blah blah.....

Add your own to the endless list of ridiculous building projects currently underway or being muted and wonder how anyone lending money to fulfil these pipe dreams thinks they will get their money back...

Local banks need to watch who they lend to....

Yeah right...what a classic one liner...there must be a lot of people in NC who bought property many years ago thinking that.